Cracking Open Bitcoin with Artificial Intelligence

In bitcoin mining, blocks, private keys, and public keys there can be found some connection to SHA256 mentioned somewhere. This makes SHA256 interesting to investigate. In this article we are going to focus on SHA256. We will dive into the code of SHA256, while also investigating the semantics of the cryptographic hash function. We will also break SHA256 down to its basic components and do some machine learning for fun.